The Education Foundation of Sarasota County has announced classroom and schoolwide grant awards totaling $225,235 for the 2019-20 academic year.
Nearly 34,000 students will be impacted by the awards that directly benefit 244 teachers and 43 K-12 schools.
The grants are funded through EducateSRQ, a signature program of the Education Foundation of Sarasota County (EFSC). The scope of grants ranges from $250 for individual classroom consumables to $10,000 for schoolwide, multidisciplinary, transformative learning experiences that infuse lesson plans with excitement. All Sarasota County district teachers and principals are eligible to apply.
“These grants encourage and empower our teachers to be creative, collaborative and innovative in developing concepts that spark curiosity, engagement and inquiry in the classroom,” said Jennifer Vigne, EFSC president.
Vigne noted that the value of the awards is magnified when successful projects are designed to be replicated across the district and statewide education systems.
The grants program ties directly to the EFSC mission to: enhance the potential of students; promote excellence in teaching; and inspire innovation in education, guided by strategic philanthropy.
“Feedback and evaluation from teachers and community partners help us keep the EducateSRQ classroom and schoolwide grants program nimble and focused on sharing innovations in education,” said Earl Young, EFSC associate director of education investments, adding: “Our ongoing assessment enables us to maximize the grants’ impact across grade levels, disciplines and campuses.”
In addition to classroom and schoolwide grants, the immersive grant, while not open for application, is included in the awards total of the EducateSRQ program. This school year the EFSC anticipates funding three immersive grants that integrate investigative problem-solving with exciting, collaborative, interdisciplinary and schoolwide curriculum.
More information is available at EdFoundationSRQ.org.
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